In the final episode of this series, three experts discuss the future of food - whether we will all be eating crickets, what is a balanced meal anyway, and will turmeric save us all?

GREAT IDEAS - Part 10: 'The quarter acre dream is over'

Oct 24th, 2017 34m 20s

Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health.

Great Ideas - Part 11: 'The quarter acre dream is over'

Oct 24th, 2017 32m 50s

Great Ideas looks at the future of Tamaki Makaurau - its housing, its transport, its population and its health.

Great Ideas - Part 10: 'As if born to'

Oct 17th, 2017 33m 27s

Great Ideas looks at the future of families - with more single people, more multi-generational families, and a more multi-cultural New Zealand, what happens to our family law?

Great Ideas - Part 9: 'The really big leap'

Oct 10th, 2017 32m 14s

This week, Great Ideas looks at the future of communication - how we'll be chatting, and what language we'll be doing it in. And could your fridge teach you te reo?

Great Ideas - Part 8: 'Find your niche'

Oct 3rd, 2017 34m 51s

This week, Great Ideas looks at how technology might impact the work that we do, where we do it, and how we survive when we can't work.

Great Ideas - Part 7: 'You have to actually climb trees'

Sep 27th, 2017 34m 4s

In the first episode of Great Ideas season 2, Megan Whelan discusses the future of leisure with three experts from AUT. Once the robots have taken all of our jobs, what will we do with all that time?

Great Ideas - Part 6 'Darwin's Origin of the Species'

Feb 4th, 2017 49m 16s

Charles Darwin's theories did not really 'come out of the blue'- there were others working with the same ideas and theories. Megan Whelan leads a discussion with Dr Rebecca Priestly, Associate Professor Joe Zuccarello and Professor Joe Bulbulia

Great Ideas - Part 5: 'Democracy and its Discontents'

Jan 28th, 2017 52m 31s

"Government of of the people, by the people, and for the people” – so goes Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. But does that describe 21st century democracy?

Great Ideas - Part 4 'The Reformation'

Jan 21st, 2017 48m 22s

The Reformation has had a major influence on thought and ideas far and above its religious beginnings. Megan Whelan talks with Dr Geoff Troughton, Professor Kathryn Walls and Dr Derek Woodard-Lehman.

Great Ideas - Part 3: 'Art Fashion and Literature'

Jan 14th, 2017 50m 34s

Megan Whelan look at how revolutions shape – and are shaped by – fashion, literature and the visual arts, with Dr David Maskill, Dr Margaret Medlyn and Dr James Meffan.

Great Ideas - Part 2: 'Every Language is a World'

Jan 7th, 2017 50m 5s

Megan Whelan looks at how language shapes – and is shaped by – our understanding of the world, with Dr Sasha Calhoun, Professor Paul Warren and Associate Professor Stephen Epstein.

Great Ideas - Part 1: 'Rebellion and Revolution'

Dec 21st, 2016 45m 18s

Would the founding fathers have approved of Donald Trump? Probably not, says the panel in episode one of Great Ideas, a new RNZ podcast series in collaboration with Victoria University.

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